Subterfuge vs Null - What's the difference?
subterfuge | null |
(countable) An indirect or deceptive device or stratagem; a blind. Refers especially to war and politics.
* 2010 , (Clare Vanderpool), (Moon Over Manifest)
*{{quote-magazine, date=2012-03
, author=William E. Carter, Merri Sue Carter
, title=The British Longitude Act Reconsidered
, volume=100, issue=2, page=87
, magazine=(American Scientist)
(uncountable) Deception; misrepresentation of the true nature of an activity.
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between subterfuge and null
is that subterfuge is (countable) an indirect or deceptive device or stratagem; a blind refers especially to war and politics while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.subterfuge
English
(wikipedia subterfuge)Noun
- Overt subterfuge in a region nearly caused a minor accident.
- How’s the spy hunt going? Uncovered any subterfuge ?
citation, passage=But was it responsible governance to pass the Longitude Act without other efforts to protect British seamen? Or might it have been subterfuge —a disingenuous attempt to shift attention away from the realities of their life at sea.}}
null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.